there is real question as to whether or not the faa actually has a choice. >> the faa unlike other agencies is personnel heavy and, in the end you can not avoid, when 70% of your budget of your operating budget is personnel, you can not avoid when the cuts are as deep as they are in the sequester the kind of actions that are taken, these furloughs. that is an unfortunate fact of arbitrary, across-the-board cuts like this. >> the faa is playing politics and something they do very well because they can rely on their constituent groups, airlines and airport operators to run to congress in an attempt to put pressure on them to throw more money at the problem. >> so we have about a dozen flight delays here out of national airport, many of them going into new york area airports. it is tough to differentiate whether it is a problem with air traffic control or flying system you will get delays. you can't go into this assuming before sequestration and furloughs there were no delays at any airport. trying to figure out what the exact impact is rather difficult. however the airline industry said is co